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Isaac Phillips

@isaacphillips

Senior backend engineer building high-reliability distributed systems with microservices, event-driven architecture, and AI-augmented delivery.

Australia

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a backend role where I can build high-reliability distributed systems, mentor teams, and drive engineering rigour—especially with modern observability, TDD, and AI-augmented development in microservices and event-driven architectures.

I build high-reliability, distributed systems across a crypto exchange and enterprise SaaS, with a focus on low latency and correctness. I’m especially drawn to teams that treat continuous learning and engineering rigour as first-class.

At Coinstash, I rebuilt the exchange's reconciliation engine (C#/.NET) into a low-latency, horizontally-scaled service. I cut average reconciliation latency from 30s–2min to under 2 seconds, using multi-threading, Redis distributed locks and caching, and automated data-integrity checks and alerting.

As a Technical Lead at Commerce Vision, I led a team of 3 engineers and 2 product implementers—setting code and implementation standards, guiding architecture, and running standups, sprint reviews/kickoffs, backlog grooming, and ticket pre-scoping/estimation. I owned infrastructure stability with health monitoring, performance-degradation alerting, rollback strategies, testing, and detailed post-mortems for critical incidents.

I also apply modern engineering practices end-to-end: microservices on Kubernetes, distributed messaging with MassTransit + Azure Service Bus, real-time updates with SignalR (WebSockets), and observability with telemetry, metrics, and feature flags. I’ve championed AI-augmented development (multi-skill agent workflows and RAG-based session memory) and introduced TDD to strengthen AI-assisted delivery and reduce code-review load.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Coinstash

Sep 2025 - Present (10 months)

Rebuilt the exchange reconciliation engine into a low-latency, horizontally scaled service with automated data-integrity checks and alerting. Designed MongoDB data-access and distributed cron frameworks, and led AI-augmented development practice and observability improvements.

C# .NET Orderbook Aware Reconciliation Redis Distributed Locks Caching Data Integrity Alerting MongoDB Distributed Cron Jobs Liquidity Sourcing Pricing Optimization AI Augmented Development Multi Skill Agent Workflows RAG TDD Observability Metrics CI CD

Technical Lead

Commerce Vision

Aug 2024 - Sep 2025 (1 year 1 month)

Provided technical leadership to set standards, mentor engineers, and guide architecture for distributed systems. Owned infrastructure stability including monitoring, alerting, rollback strategies, and incident post-mortems.

Technical Leadership Distributed Systems

Senior Software Engineer

Commerce Vision

Jun 2022 - Aug 2024 (2 years 2 months)

Built distributed concurrency solutions to safely reprocess messages across Kubernetes pods and led migration of legacy message processing to MassTransit with Azure Service Bus. Developed Kubernetes-based C#/.NET microservices and integrated real-time client updates via SignalR.

Concurrency State Machine Locking Kubernetes C# .NET Microservices Mass Transit Azure Service Bus SignalR CI CD Testing Frameworks

Software Engineer

Commerce Vision

Apr 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Delivered features on a Kubernetes microservices platform using C#/.NET and a TypeScript frontend, and supported release pipelines and infrastructure improvements. Developed automated testing tooling and contributed to an integration that automated customer document parsing.

C# .NET TypeScript Kendo Aurelia Kubernetes CI CD Reflection Based Testing Tooling WebSockets

Software Developer

MPPI Global

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 (1 year)

Built a C#/.NET (DevExpress) application to visualize high-volume continuous mining-sensor data for operators. Developed tooling and testing to improve velocity and reduce field errors in offline environments.

C# .NET Data Visualization Continuous Mining Sensor Data Tooling Testing